• If US opposes child labor - why not child soldiers?
    Jun 27, 1999
    "There are some things we cannot and will not tolerate," President Clinton declared June 16 in Geneva, as he pledged US support for a new international convention banning the worst forms of child labor.
  • NATO's Use of Cluster Munitions in Yugoslavia
    May 10, 1999
    The U.S. Defense Department at the end of April announced a move toward the use of more "area weapons" in Operation Allied Force. At the same time, there are reports of NATO's growing shortage of precision-guided weapons. These factors suggest NATO may increasingly rely on unguided ("dumb") weapons, including so-called cluster bombs.
  • The World Has Failed the Kosovo Refugees
    Apr 8, 1999
    Half a million Kosovo Albanian refugees were brutalized by the Serb military as they were forced to leave their homes in circumstances often as tragic as the one above. As if that isn't bad enough, however, they're now being mistreated a second time by the governments of the international community -- with their belated and fumbling response to the ongoing refugee crisis.
  • Will We Fail Kosovo's Refugees
    Mar 30, 1999
    Today's scenes of desperate refugees pouring out of Kosovo, thousands by the hour, should come as no surprise. These people are not fleeing NATO's bombs. They're fleeing the troops of Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic, and his campaign to murder or forcibly expel the ethnic Albanians from their homeland.
  • Annals from the Bureaucracy of Death
    Feb 28, 1999
    President Clinton stunned Latin America recently by apologizing to the people of Guatemala for U.S. support for repressive military forces there during the Cold War. His forthright statement ended Washington's denial of U.S. complicity in Guatemalan atrocities.
  • State Responsibility in the Arms Trade and the Protection of Human Rights
    Feb 17, 1999
    In other words, arms transfers can embolden genocidal forces, as we have seen in Rwanda, or stoke the flames of long, drawn-out conflicts with hundreds of thousands of casualties, as we have seen in Sudan. To prevent the emergence of cultures of impunity in which these abuses thrive, governments must apply a moral imperative that takes precedence over actions informed by real politik or commercial impulses. It is far too easy and not at all persuasive to throw up one's hands in anguish over the horrendous abuses this world has witnessed, and then sit back and blame the traffickers.
  • The West Winks at Serbian Atrocities in Kosovo
    Aug 4, 1998
    Through all the confusion about the current crisis in Kosovo and U.S. foreign policy, one unfortunate fact has emerged: serious human rights violations are being tolerated in favor of short-term geopolitical interests in the Balkans.
  • Two Years After Srebrenica, Killers Remain Free
    Jul 11, 1997
    Of the 78 people on all sides publicly indicted for war crimes in the former Yugoslavia, 66 remain at large. They include General Ratko Mladic, who personally presided over the slaughter in Srebrenica, and Radovan Karadzic, the political mastermind of the Bosnian genocide. NATO knows where to find these and other accused killers and has the legal duty and the means to capture them.